Schrodinger’s war: it’s only a war if they’re confident in winning, otherwise it’ll be some euphemism like police action.
Don’t worry, guys! If some country bombed, let’s say for example, 2 of our buildings in NYC, would we treat that as act of war? Nah… probably not. Surely we’d just shrug and move on with peace negotiations!
I also heard that when just a single harbor was bombed, that too was considered an act of war?
No we would do the right thing and blame the religion that those people ostensibly used to justify their terrorism that about ~1 billion other people practice who don’t commit terrorism, become super Xenophobic about it and violate the privacy of countless Americans who practice that religion (or I guess could be mistaken for doing so by idiots?) and completely avoid thinking about what motivated the acts of terror or what the intentions of the attack were (which was to get us to do exactly what we did to a T).
To Trump and Hegseth there’s no boots on the ground so no war. Trump doesn’t want imagery of people being blown up by IEDs, he wants planes and maybe some special force operation.
Trump doesn’t want imagery of people being blown up by IEDs
Actually, I think he does want that, it makes his job much easier once everybody is shocked by those images, then it becomes time to be patriotic and unify not ask questions.
Is that what will happen? I don’t know, but I am confident that is what Trump and Steven Miller think will happen.
That will tank his popularity, not increase it. Now if Iran attacks the US, who the fuck knows.
Trump doesn’t like, you know, war. IEDs are war, bombing isn’t like, you know, an actual war. It’s just bombing and stuff. /s
Trump doesn’t like, you know, war.
What evidence do you have of this?
"I don’t know if this is technically a war,” Senator Lindsay Graham said of the un-war in Iran on Meet the Press on Sunday.
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But it is not just Trump loyalists who are playing word games. Democrats also have a hard time calling this what it is, with the party’s top officials using terms like “Military attack,” “military operation,” “military assault,” and the like.
Sen. Chuck Schumer says the strikes are “risking wider conflict”; Rep. Hakeem Jeffries says the operation has “brought us to the brink of a possible war.”
What a revolting mass of spineless human worms.
Obviously it’s a ‘special military operation’.
War is peace, don’t you know?
Controlled opposition in full effect.
Turns out Killing All The Brown People was a bipartisan consensus.
Republicans like to call what is developing in Iran a “специальная военная операция” or more commonly known as Special Military Operation comrades.
Yes yes, of course the US can do all the war stuff, including war crimes, but unless our sacred institutional leaders all agree to call it a war and then sign the sacred war parchment after the master of arms holds the staff of truth then obviously it’s not a war. Great stuff, very compelling world we live in.
It’s just Sparkling Conflict.
Oh, not technically a “war” but a submarine just sank one of their battleships in international waters. That sounds like a war to me.
This is either a war or an international war crime and you have to remove him plus Hegseth from office.
Decide you fleckless sycophants.
I saw that dumbass Anna Paulina do a bunch of semantic games over “boots on the ground”. It was a real WTAF moment.
